Dance (BFA) with an Emphasis in Ballet
Dance (BFA) with an Emphasis in Ballet
This program offered by Leigh Gerdine College of Fine Arts/
Department of Dance
Required Courses
Webster University's Leigh Gerdine College of Fine Arts
Department of Dance provides excellence in training through both
the BA and BFA degrees. The Department trains skilled, creative,
and compassionate thinking artists for 21st century careers as
performers, choreographers, and educators.
Learning Outcomes
• Performance: Perform, with professional integrity, a variety of
techniques and styles with a broad spectrum of expressivity
and quality technical expertise with an emphasis in ballet.
• Choreography: Create and produce professional,
imaginative, original, in-depth choreographic work and direct
dancers in the performance of that work.
• Teaching: Create and execute exemplary, innovative lesson
plans for a variety of ages, techniques and populations;
develop skills to communicate movement vocabulary to
others.
• Integrate and successfully utilize knowledge from courses in
the breadth and depth of the discipline.
• Function effectively in a variety of professional contexts,
displaying global awareness through intrapersonal,
interpersonal, collaborative, and technological skills.
Special Requirements
Courses completed with a grade of D do not count toward fulfilling
the specific course requirements of the major.
Acceptance to the Department of Dance as a degree-seeking
student, BA or BFA is by audition and consists of the following:
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An interview to discuss career goals and past history
Submission of résumé
Performance of approximately three minutes of choreography
Participation in a Ballet and Modern Technique Class
Degree Requirements
A minimum of 128 credit hours consisting of the following:
• 97 required credit hours
• Applicable University Global Citizenship Program hours, as
adjusted for Dance BFAs
• Electives
Global Citizenship Program for Dance BFAs
• FRSH 1200: First Year Seminar
• 6 credit hours from courses designated ‘Roots of
Cultures’ (One course with the DANC prefix can fulfill GCP
and major requirements simultaneously)
• 3 credit hours from courses designated ‘Social Systems &
Human Behavior’
• 3 credit hours from courses designated ‘Global
Understanding’ (DANC 1040 may satisfy both a requirement
of the major and a GCP requirement.)
• 3 credit hours from courses designated ‘Physical & Natural
World’ or ‘Quantitative Literacy’
• KEYS 4XXX: Global Keystone Seminar
Recommended Electives for the BA or BFA in
Dance
NOTE: Except where specified otherwise, the above courses
must not also satisfy major requirements. GCP skills requirements
may be fulfilled with the courses above, courses in the major,
or electives. Arts Appreciation is satisfied in meeting the
requirements for the major.
Webster University 2016-2017 Undergraduate Studies Catalog DRAFT
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ANTH 1100 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3 hours)
BUSN 1200 Introduction to Business (3 hours)
Foreign Languages
ENGL 2150 Creative Writing: Poetry (3 hours)
HIST 1100 World Civilizations Before 1500 (3 hours)
PHOT 1000 Photo I (3 hours)
PHIL 1010 Introduction to Critical Thinking (3 hours)
PSYC 1100 Introduction to Psychology (3 hours)
FTVP 1000 Introduction to Film, Television, and Video
Production (3 hours)
• WGST 1010 Studying Women Across the Disciplines (3
hours)
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Majors
• DANC 2000- or 3000-level applied dance, Ballet or Modern
(6 hours)
• DANC 3000-level applied dance, Ballet (6 hours)
• DANC 3000-level applied dance, Modern (6 hours)
• DANC 4000-level applied dance, Ballet (6 hours)
• DANC 2000- level applied dance, Tap( 4 hours);
or DANC 3000- Level applied dance, Jazz (4 hours);
or MUTH 2410/3410 (Musical Theatre Dance Styles I or II) (4
hours)
• DANC 1040 International Dance (3 hours)
• DANC 1220 Improvisation I (2 hours)
• DANC 1310, 1320 Composition I (6 hours)
• DANC 1410 Introduction to Professional Dance I (2 hours)
• DANC 1420 Introduction to Professional Dance II (1 hour)
• DANC 1550 Stagecraft for Dance I (1 hour)
• DANC 1560 Stagecraft for Dance II (1 hour)
• 2 hours from the following:
• DANC 2060 Men's and Variations
• DANC 2050 Pointe and Variations
• DANC Partnering (2 hours)
• DANC 2210 Dance History: Lineage Based to 20th Century
(3 hours)
• DANC 2250 Cross Training (2 hours)
• DANC 2310, 2320 Composition II (6 hours)
• DANC 2520 Living Anatomy and Movement (3 hours)
• DANC 3150 Performance Techniques I (2 hours)
• DANC 3160 Performance Techniques II (2 hours)
• DANC 3210 Dance History: 20th Century to Present (3
hours)
• DANC 3250 Somatics (2 hours)
• DANC 3550 Lighting and Costume Design for Dance I (1
hour)
• DANC 3560 Lighting and Costume Design for Dance II (1
hour)
• DANC 4310 Choreographic Project (3 hours)
• DANC 4400 Dance Pedagogy (3 hours)
• DANC 4410 Dance Seminar (0 hours)
• DANC 4900 Senior Seminar (1 hour)
• Additional advanced-level work in technique, (3250, 3060,
3050 etc.) choreography, topics, independent study,
or DANC 2050, 2060, or 2250 (2 hours)
• WRIT 1010 Composition (3 hours)
or ENGL 2160Creative Writing: Fiction (3 hours)
• EPMD 1000 Introduction to Media Production (3 hours)
• ART 1000 Introduction to Studio Art (3 hours)
or ART 3820 Performance Art (3 hours)
• THEA 1080 Studio Acting I (3 hours)
• MUSC 1000 Fundamentals of Musicianship (3 hours)
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